The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan / Jenny Nordberg.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]Edition: First editionDescription: ix, 350 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0307952495 (hardcover)
- 9780307952493 (hardcover)
- 305.309581 23
- HQ1075.5.A3 N67 2014
Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | Anita & W.T. Neyland Public Library | Anita & W.T. Neyland Public Library | Nonfiction | 305.3095 NOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 43185000872232 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-336) and index.
Boys. The rebel mother ; The foreigner ; The chosen one ; The son maker ; The politician ; The underground girls ; The naughty one -- Youth. The tomboy ; The candidate ; The Pashtun Tea Party ; The future bride ; The sisterhood -- Men. The bodyguard ; The romantic ; The driver ; The warrior ; The refusers ; The goddess ; Zoroastrianism across the globe -- Fathers. The defeated ; The castoff ; The wife ; The father -- One of the boys.
An award-winning foreign correspondent who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners.
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